What CD's have you recently bought/rented?

[blackmoses]

got these

(Deluxe Edition CD+DVD)








Vinyl

[criterionmaster]

I rent to the thrift store today, and sadly I wasn't able to find any pants, so I snatched up two music items.

CD:



$3. Really love R.E.M. and this album is fantastic. Standout tracks being: "Drive", "Everybody Hurts", and "Man on the Moon".

Vinyl:



$0.69. I had to get this, but was fucking pissed off because I found an album I already downloaded, but would love to own, The Best of Peter & Gordon, and someone had stolen the record out of the sleeve! I was so pissed.

[blackmoses]

I think actually think "Man on the Moon" is the worst song on Automatic for the People. The song is alright, but it just doesn't stand out to me. Every single other song on that album is fantastic though.

[criterionmaster]

blackmoses said:

I think actually think "Man on the Moon" is the worst song on Automatic for the People. The song is alright, but it just doesn't stand out to me. Every single other song on that album is fantastic though.

Hmm, you have been doing a lot of "thinking" I see haha. But really, "Man on the Moon" has one of the best chorus'* I have heard from R.E.M. and the lyrics are really great. Yeah, 'cause "New Orleans Instrumental No. 1" is really fantastic, and better than "Man on the Moon". I find it hard to believe you like "Find the River" better as well. Also, a few other songs I wouldn't say are fantastic; good, but no "Man on the Moon".

*The way he says "If you believe..." alone makes it perfect.

[PTAhole]

criterionmaster said:

I rent to the thrift store today, and sadly I wasn't able to find any pants, so I snatched up two music items.

CD:



$3. Really love R.E.M. and this album is fantastic. Standout tracks being: "Drive", "Everybody Hurts", and "Man on the Moon".

Yeah that's one of my favorite albums. Not an even mediocre track on there. Great buy.

[blackmoses]

criterionmaster said:

blackmoses said:

I think actually think "Man on the Moon" is the worst song on Automatic for the People. The song is alright, but it just doesn't stand out to me. Every single other song on that album is fantastic though.

Hmm, you have been doing a lot of "thinking" I see haha. But really, "Man on the Moon" has one of the best chorus'* I have heard from R.E.M. and the lyrics are really great. Yeah, 'cause "New Orleans Instrumental No. 1" is really fantastic, and better than "Man on the Moon". I find it hard to believe you like "Find the River" better as well. Also, a few other songs I wouldn't say are fantastic; good, but no "Man on the Moon".

*The way he says "If you believe..." alone makes it perfect.

Are you being serious or not about New Orleans Instrumental No. 1? Because I think that is fantastic, but not better then Man on the Moon. Find the River, I think that is one of the best on the album.

[PTAhole]

I strongly disagree, Joel. Man on the Moon is one R.E.M.'s best songs period. Let alone just on Automatic.

Anyway bought...
Arcade Fire- Neon Bible
I haven't heard Funeral, but I loved this. Even the few tracks I didn't like never left me unabsorbed. It felt very cohesive, something few albums these days can claim.

[eatawiiner]

Got TV on the Radio's "Return to Cookie Mountain". Also got two tickets to their show on FRIDAY! THATS RIGHT BITCHES!!!! Orpheum Theater rocks allasudden, they got 'The Rules of the Game this week with INLAND EMPIRE &&& TVontheRadio. Fucking cool dudes in the scheduling department.

[captainofbeef]

Bought:
Live at Massey Hall 1971-Neil Young

[captainofbeef]

Some long overdue purchases:
Joyful Noise- Derek Trucks Band
A Love Supreme- John Coltrane

[captainofbeef]

Another record I've been meaning to pick up for a long time:

[eatawiiner]

Picked up the vinyl: Yo La Tengo - Summer Sun

[sacrilegend]

Lou Reed - New York (1989)

[blackmoses]

[criterionmaster]

Bought these two vinyls while at two different thrift stores:



haha. I bought "we are the world" for the novelty of it, really.

[Nomansvally]

Preordered:

[captainofbeef]

Hmm, I can't wait for that.

[eatawiiner]

Picked up Blond Redhead's "23" on both CD and vinyl. 1st I got it at Best Buy for 7.99, then I found it at a record store for only 11.99 on vinyl, so I couldn't pass that up. Great shit, plus I found Tom Waits 'Swordfish Trumbone' for 26.99 and TVotR's 'Desparate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes' for 14.99 and 'Return to Cookie Mountain' for 26.99. I'm broke as shit, but tonights the last night to do taxes so ima do that and get it back in 4 business days and buy all the baller ass vinyl I can carry with my hands.

[eatawiiner]

andruini said:

that record owns. i think it's my favorite blonde redhead cd, but i'm not sure yet.

Word. I'm diggin' the shit outofit. Definitely my favorite album of '07 so far. I've listened to it a shit ton and just cant seem to tire of it.

[eatawiiner]

Got TVontheRadio's OKCalculator from the 'internet'. Killer shit.

[captainofbeef]

[eatawiiner]

Got a few essentil vinyls over the weekend.
I got Darkside of the Moon because, jesus christ, what is a vinyl collection with out a decent copy of Dark Side? Plus it came with two killer posters and two killer stickers that look like they came with the original release. I'll post some pics once i take some.

TV on the Radio -Desparate Youth & Blood Thirsty Babes
I got this so I could have "Ambulance" on record. Plus at 12.98 it was super cheap.

Sun Ra - Landiquity
From all the sun ra i've heard, this is the best so far.

[sacrilegend]

Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds
Abattoir Blues/The Lyre Of Orpheus






Oh my frigging word. I can die happy now! I was a bit apprehensive of Nick's choice of a gospel choir to accompany him, but after listening for a while, I noticed that they add that quality that makes these albums what they are.

What a beautiful outside cover thingy, as well. Mine is an original (yay) and I'm just super-pleased. It's like a cloth-covered thingy with a slit at the side, almost like a record, and then the two seperate discs come in a pink and a green sleeve, like a record would. Hmmmm. I can't tell you how pleased I am! I want to die! In a good way. I'm like AHHAHAHAHAHHHHHHH! Okay, excuse me, I need to go and listen to Hiding All Away... what a freaky song.

Some thingies people said about this double-album:

Wikipedia

"After listening to the 17 tracks and nearly 90 minutes of music on Abattoir Blues/The Lyre Of Orpheus, though, I'm gonna have to eat at least some of my worries because this is probably the best work that Cave and the Seeds have done for a good many years. Supposedly the group recorded for 10 days straight and laid to tape nearly as many discs of music, and fortunately they seemed to have gotten things down to nearly the essence. The release is brutally raw in places and at others it's touching. They enlist a choir for many tracks and unlike some past recordings, it just flat-out recaptures some of the energy that seems to have been lost in the past couple releases.

Conceptually split into two releases, Abattoir Blues is supposedly the slightly harder in terms of musical content but the boundaries still blur between the two discs and the entire release is stronger because of it. "Get Ready For Love" opens up the release pretty much balls-out with what amounts to the one of the most blistering gospel tracks ever recorded. "Cannibal's Hymn" takes things down a bit before "Hiding All Away" unleashes Cave with another one of his masterful lyrical performances, moving from quiet to frenzied (and even making members of the choir laugh at one point) while the instrumentation follows suit in a big way. Shuffling in odd time signatures, the track may be the standout on the first disc.

The mid-section of the disc slows things down a bit again while the album-titled "Abattoir Blues" strips things back to nearly just piano, drums, and vocals and works wonderfully because of it. Just when you think things are going to get a bit soft ("Let The Bells Ring" is easily one of the weaker entries on the two-disc set), the opening disc closes with the hyper-dynamic "Fable Of The Brown Ape," a whisper-to-noisebleed track that puts a sharp punctuation on the disc.

As mentioned above, The Lyre Of Orpheus doesn't calm things down so much as to induce snoozing, and lyrically Cave breaks out some of his best material on the entire release. The title-track opens the release with a ramshackle literary-referencing piece that bursts loose and slays accordingly. While things get a little bit light in places (the bouncy "Breathless" may very well be one of the poppiest things the group has ever done), there are enough outstanding moments (like the handclapping stomper of "Supernaturally") to make amends. In truth, a couple tracks could have been cut to turn this into an epic single-disc release of huge proportions, but it's still the best work that Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds have done since Murder Ballads. Here's hoping he keeps on keepin' on." www.almostcool.org

"With Abattoir Blues/The Lyre Of Orpheus we have something that few could have expected - two albums that can both be regarded as self-contained masterpieces; two storming, driving, relentless, devotional, slinky, subtle, heartbreakingly-beautiful records that, lyrically, switch from the cynical to the sanguine, the defeated to the defiant, dealing in love, war, beauty, children, romance, rejection, Pethedine, poetry, panties, God, Auden, Johnny Cash, cold potatoes, too-much-money, not enough money, writer’s block, flowers, animals and more flowers. But maybe we’re projecting here." www.anti.com

Track List: (favourite favourite favourites bolded, because if it were just favourites, I'd bold them all, and then some)

Abattoir Blues:
01. Get Ready For Love
02. Cannibals Hymn
03. Hiding All Away
04. Messiah Ward
05. There She Goes, My Beautiful World
06. Nature Boy
07. Abattoir Blues
08. Let The Bells Ring
09. The Fable Of The Brown Ape

The Lyre Of Orpheus:
10. The Lyre Of Orpheus
11. Breathless
12. Babe You Turn Me On
13. Easy Money
14. Supernaturally
15. Spell
16. Carry Me
17. O Children

[captainofbeef]

[captainofbeef]

Bought:

[sacrilegend]

Marilyn Manson
Holy Wood


At first everything sounds the same as everything else I've heard from this god, but after a while you notice subtle differences such as gentler choruses, more harmonious vocals and repetition. The use of instruments is also a bit different, it sounds like the technique is better, although I'm no expert. There is more defined difference between his hating and hurting and loving and losing songs. If that makes sense to anyone who isn't as obsessed as I am, I do not know. He uses his usual "radio-ed" voice a few times, nothing new there. Same hate, although there are a few nicer songs than on other albums. It provokes less feelings and is much less profound and memorable than The Golde Age of Grotesque, but I feel it necessary for my collection. One thing I can say for this album is that his hate songs are crazy, crazy, crazy hateful. On some other albums the songs kind of met up somewhere in the middle, but here there is no middle. I kind of don't feel safe with it yet, it's still very new and I might warm up more later.

Track listing (favourite favourites bolded):
GodEatGod
The Love Song
The Fight Song
Disposable Teens
Target Audience (Narcissus Narcosis)
President Dead
In The Shadow Of The Valley Of Death*
Cruci-Fiction In Space
A Place In The Dirt
The Nobodies
The Death Song
Lamb Of God*
Born Again
Burning Flag
Coma Black a) Eden Eye b) The Apple of Discord
Valentine's Day
The Fall Of Adam
King Kill 33o
Count To Six And Die (The Vacuum Of Infinite Space Encompassing)*

*three astonishingly different songs, I frigging love them.

She's got her eyes open wide
she's got the dirt and spit of the world
her mouth on the metal
the lips of a scared little girl

I've got an angel in the lobby
he's waiting to put me in line
I won't ask forgiveness
my faith has gone dry

She's got her Christian prescriptures
and death has crawled in her ear
like elevator music of songs
that she shouldn't hear
8/10 (for now)

[blackmoses]

[captainofbeef]

Bought:
Pearl Jam-No Code

[eatawiiner]

I got a fuck ton of new music, so instead of taking the time to transfer picks to photobucket ill just list what I got: Not a complete list, just what I remember:

Modest Mouse - The Moon & Antarctica
Modest Mouse - Building Nothing out of Something
Toots and the Maytals - Time Tough: The Anthology
Charlie Hunter - Natty Dread
Black Sabbath - Master of Reality
Metalicca - Kill em All
STP - Core
Devin the Dude - The Dude
Violent Femmes - Violent Femmes
The Pixies - Doolittle
Ween - Quebec
Ween - White Pepper
The White Stripes - White Blood Cells
Van Morrison - Astral Weeks
Van Morrison - Moondance
The Raconteurs - Broken Boy Soldier
Fugazi - In on the Kill Taker

Also I got on the DL the entire Tom Waits Discography as well as Radioheads and The Pixies. Joy for me. GREAT SUCCESS.

[criterionmaster]

eatawiiner said:

I got a fuck ton of new music, so instead of taking the time to transfer picks to photobucket ill just list what I got: Not a complete list, just what I remember:


Black Sabbath - Master of Reality

Van Morrison - Astral Weeks
Van Morrison - Moondance

These are three of my favorite albums, those two Van's are probably his best, and are just great. But that Master of Reality is in my top ten albums, I never thought it was possible to be as good as Paranoid, but it is. Have you heard their Paranoid album? Just put that album [MoR] on and listen all the way through, and you will be amazed, then the second time read the lyrics as it goes through and be amazed at the dark-ass amazing lyrics, especially the first couple verses on the last song. They are the true kings of metal. No one could ever touch them. Probably my second favorite band ever.